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@ 2012-07-30  7:56 Florian Lindner
  2012-07-30 11:29 ` Calvin Walton
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  0 siblings, 4 replies; 11+ messages in thread
From: Florian Lindner @ 2012-07-30  7:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-btrfs

Hey!

I recently starting playing with btrfs and subvolume, but it has left
me puzzled:
Distribution is Archlinux, Kernel is 3.4.6.

>>>
root@horus /mnt # mkfs.btrfs -L test /dev/sdb1

WARNING! - Btrfs Btrfs v0.19 IS EXPERIMENTAL
WARNING! - see http://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org before using

fs created label test on /dev/sdb1
        nodesize 4096 leafsize 4096 sectorsize 4096 size 2.73TB
Btrfs Btrfs v0.19
root@horus /mnt # mount /dev/sdb1 test
root@horus /mnt # cd test
root@horus /mnt/test # btrfs subvolume create sv1
Create subvolume './sv1'
root@horus /mnt/test # btrfs subvolume create sv2
Create subvolume './sv2'
root@horus /mnt/test # touch sv1/sv1.file
root@horus /mnt/test # touch sv2/sv2.file
root@horus /mnt/test # btrfs subvolume get-default .
ID 256 top level 5 path sv1
ID 259 top level 5 path sv2
<<<

What is the default subvolume now? How can I tell?

>>>
root@horus /mnt/test # btrfs subvolume set-default 259 .
root@horus /mnt/test # btrfs subvolume get-default .
ID 256 top level 5 path sv1
ID 259 top level 5 path sv2
<<<

Seems to have changed nothing....?

>>>
root@horus /mnt/test # cd ..
root@horus /mnt # umount test && mount /dev/sdb1 test
root@horus /mnt # ls test
sv2.file
<<<

Ah, sv2 seems to be default, like I had set it.

>>>
root@horus /mnt # btrfs subvolume set-default 5 test
root@horus /mnt # umount test && /mnt # mount /dev/sdb1 test
root@horus /mnt # ls test
sv1/  sv2/
<<<

Ok, 5 seems to be the root subvolume id. Is it always like that? I
remembered to have read somewhere it was 0 ? (which makes a kind of
more sense for me)

>>>
root@horus /mnt # btrfs subvolume set-default 256 test
root@horus /mnt # umount test && mount /dev/sdb1 test
root@horus /mnt # ls test
sv1.file
<<<

Fine! But:

>>>
root@horus /mnt # btrfs subvolume set-default 0 test
root@horus /mnt # umount test && mount /dev/sdb1 test
root@horus /mnt # ls test
sv1.file
<<<

set-default 0 seems to do nothing but does not produce an error
either. What about subvolume 0? Still I can do:

>>>
root@horus /mnt # umount test
root@horus /mnt # mount -o subvolid=0 /dev/sdb1 test
root@horus /mnt # ls test
sv1/  sv2/
<<<

Ok, here 0 as subvolid works. What about subvolid=5?

>>>
root@horus /mnt # umount test
root@horus /mnt # mount -o subvolid=5 /dev/sdb1 test
root@horus /mnt # ls test
sv1/  sv2/
<<<

Works too.

Sorry for the lengthy posting, but writing this posting has puzzled me
even more I was yesterday. I hope someone could shed some light on it.

Thanks!

Florian

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2012-07-30  7:56 subvolumes: default and IDs Florian Lindner
2012-07-30 11:29 ` Calvin Walton
2012-07-30 12:43   ` Swâmi Petaramesh
2012-07-30 12:18 ` Liu Bo
2012-07-31  0:28 ` Alexander Karbstein
2012-07-31  0:50 ` Alexander Karbstein
2012-07-31  0:53   ` [PATCH] Btrfs-progs: Enabled setting root subvolume with subvolid=0 Alexander Karbstein
2012-07-31  1:26     ` Liu Bo
2012-07-31  2:09       ` Alexander Karbstein
2012-07-31 17:11       ` [PATCH V2] " Alexander Karbstein
2012-07-31 17:11       ` Alexander Karbstein

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